Not every single Arab is a born racist [admire courageous Arabs that stand up against it, such as many Arab Christians] nor is every single Muslim an Islamofacsist Jihadist [salute the few brave that speak up]. However, due to their current twisted upbringing the racism in the Arab world & Jihad or Jihad-apologetics are a problem in their mainstream not just in the fringes or merely "pockets" of "extremists".
Hence: Arab Racism & Islamic Jihad is The 'Guilt of Most Arab Muslims'.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The Islamic Inquisition by Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview's guest today is Ali Sadeghi, a former political prisoner in Iran. He is the author of the forthcoming book Persia, The Cradle of Infidels, a memoir of his courageous struggle for liberty under the Iranian Mullahs’ iron-grip of terror.

FP: Ali Sadeghi, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Sadeghi: Thank you.

FP: Tell us a bit about your background and how you ended up being imprisoned in Iran.

Sadeghi: My story begins in college. In 1996, I entered college as an engineering student with a fantasizing mind about how to fulfill all my suppressed desires through the supposedly open environment of the university. Soon I realized the colleges in Iran are as well governed and dominated by harsh Islamic rules as the entire society. My hopes of respiring in a free environment faded away, and my first instinctive reaction was to join a secret oppositionist organization which has been fighting for secularism by the mean of causing deep cultural amends especially throughout the collegiate.

Furthermore, the famous backlash of 1999 took place in TehranUniversity, and consequently many students and dissidents were captured, including the recognized members of the mentioned organization. Describing the causalities of this backlash needs more than our limited space in here. I have tried to depict this demonstration in my book.

By the way, I was arrested too, and, ever since, I have been carrying the mark of a dissident, being captured several more times in different occasions thereafter, no matter whether I was involved in any activities or not.

FP: I apologize for asking this, but can you describe some physical and mental tortures that the regime inflicted on you and other prisoners?

Sadeghi: Once somebody tends to oppose the government in Iran in any sense, he or she should be prepared to face an Intelligence Service with unconstrained authority; an ideological mafia which has the sanction of the court even for the use of torture. As you might know, using the torture is not illegal in my country. But, what's more interesting is that "beating" a defendant under the interrogation is not considered "torture".

The term torture, according to the heartrending experiences of many freedom fighters in Iran, is used when we talk about displacing somebody's fingernails using pliers, or burning one's flesh with hot iron, or using some drugs that cause unendurable internal pain in the body. These Middle Aged tortures have been used so many times in the prisons of Iran, and thus someone like me who was only beaten under the interrogation don't dare say that I was tortured. Yet, the mental torture is a completely different matter. They kept me in solitary confinement for quite a few months, and they made me believe that my father was also arrested, being kept in a cell next to mine! Within a very short time of staying in such traumatizing state, the first grey hairs appeared on my head at the age of 25.

FP: The last time you were arrested, you were prosecuted not only as a dissident, but also as an infidel. Can you talk about that?

Sadeghi: In my last imprisonment, although my initial accusation was similar to the previous times namely taking part in student movements, the Intelligence Service discovered in my apartment some proofs denoting I had anti-Islamic attitudes and anti-religious views in general. These proofs mostly included my own "unpublished" critiques on religious culture and Islamic contexts, also a short psychoanalysis over the process of producing suicide bombers. Moreover, I had a vast collection of "prohibited books" in my house. These evidences could result in my death sentence, for according to Islamic law of Shari'a, apostates to Islam are condemned to death.

FP: Tell us how you survived and how were able to win your freedom.

Sadeghi: Simply, I accepted death. During the interrogations, once the threat of being sent to the court as an apostate reached to the extreme, I just faced the risk without thinking twice, and asked the Interrogators to do their best to get me executed.

My expected miracle happened, and they refrained from sending the mentioned evidences to court for mere one reason: I had the support of the media. If they had executed me because of some unpublished critiques, in the blink of an eye the whole world would have been informed via my very active journalist friends. This could cause a human rights crisis for the government which was already going through a rough time because of the causalities of the suppression of young students in some recent backlashes.

Hence, they just released me on bail, and I instantly left the country before they could find any chance to "secretly" carry out the mortal command of their ideology. Iranian intelligence mafia has a well-known reputation of secretly murdering intellectuals when it's not possible to openly hang them before the eyes of the world.

In so many words, the main factor which saved me was the potential power of the media. Of course, the process of such survival was much more complicated than I describe here. I have written it all down in my book which will be published very soon.

FP: Tell us a bit about the book you are writing.

Sadeghi: My book, "Persia, The Cradle of Infidels", is written to introduce to the free world a new born generation in Iran; a generation that is very angry, highly skeptical, and deeply voracious for modernism. It's a narrative non-fiction novel, describing what I had been through in Iran, and the psychic path through which I could reach a profound rebirth in my ideological life, starting from my deeply embedded religiosity and ending with my freedom from beliefs, infidelity. I have shown how thousands and thousands of my young compatriots have gone or are going through the same road of insight, and how the oppressed state of the Islamized society actually accelerates the formation of such metamorphosis in the new generation of Iran. This generation is capable of establishing secularism in not a very distant future. Moreover, short descriptions of some social and political issues in Iran have been presented in this book.

FP: Why do you think that, at the foundation of the Mullah tyranny, there is such a demonization of women and sexuality?

Sadeghi: Demonization of sexuality rises from the essence of all religions, as in Christianity the man himself is the fruit of "sin". In case of Islam, however, we notice some more excessive attributions that are being already discussed all over the world today.

Depending on the psychology of people, religion either makes them better people or brings the worst out of them, and, an ideological mindset can cause crucial destructions with an entirely clear conscience. Now, once a governmental system is based on such harmful mindset, the consequences are obvious.

Islam is a political ideology, having served its fossilized ideologists during the history, and it firstly and mostly attacks the most sensitive cells of the body of the society: women. According to Islamic laws, women's inheritance is half the amount of men; and the right to divorce is basically given to men. Men's right of polygamy is another mentionable example, and so on.

Such ideology justifies and gives power to Mullahs to enslave and paralyze half the society, namely women. The other half, of course, are never left in peace either.

The consequence of sexual oppression in Iran has been a kind of sexual revolt in a great part of youth; a revolt which is hidden, and sometimes symptomatic. It also wastes a tremendous part of youth's energy, abilities, and capabilities which could be used in really constructive fields. Not to mention the psychological relation between this sexual oppression and the increasingly widespread use of drugs throughout the country.

FP: What do you think of the Mullahs' attempt to get a hold of nuclear weapons? It appears that any day now they will have the capacity to launch a nuclear strike. They have already made it clear that they are ready to use them, especially against Israel. This is a terrifying situation. What are your thoughts? What can and must the West do?

Sadeghi: Needless to say, this is a confusing situation. "The right for the peaceful use of nuclear energy" is a disguise the Mullahs have been using for getting nuclear weapons. However, possessing nuclear weapon is a different matter than "using" them. Even if the Mullahs get to nukes, I think they will never have the guts to nuke Israel. But, if Iran is attacked by the West, I am sure Israel will be the first target for the Mullahs' bloody revenge, and then, of course, the whole world will be united against Iran, and Ahmadi Nejad's schizopherenic dream to wipe out another country from the world will result in complete destruction of Iran itself. Causalities of such conflict will be beyond retrieval for all sides of the conflict.

Another aspect of the crisis is that if the West takes military measures against Iran in any sense, the Mullahs will get a chance to, under the motto of "national unity", savagely suppress all the internal opposition rising from people, and this will strengthen the bases of clerical power, prolonging their empire.

The solution: Europeans must stop flirting with the Mullahs, and must try, by any means, to convince Russia and China to stop backing the Mullahs up. This is a crisis impossible to solve through soft negotiations or politically correctness. Sides must be taken clearly, and no one should slightly doubt or underestimate the growing danger of "clerical nukes". Yet, the core of the solution is a regime-change in Iran by supporting the opposition of Iranian people against theocracy. If we Iranians are assured of the West's support, we can take down the clerics. If, however, we feel we will be betrayed, we'll have a very slim chance for victory.

FP: Well, I have to say I am a bit more pessimistic than you my friend. I don't think the Mullahs lack any courage to use nukes if they have them. This is not a matter of courage. It is a matter of a death cult getting WMDs in its hands. Death cults yearn to perpetrate mass death and suicide -- and that is why they perpetrate mass death and suicide. So when this death cult gets its hands on nuclear weapons, it will do exactly that what it yearns to do, and we simply can't take the risk of sitting around waiting to see what will happen.

You touched on the Iranian people overthrowing their dictators and how the West can help. Let's close on that note. What is the future of Iran? What can we do to help the struggle for freedom there?

Sadeghi:Iran is in the middle of a great renaissance toward achieving democracy and establishing secularism. We should be aware that democracy is a matter of achievement, and not imposition. No power can forcefully democratize a nation. The recent experience of Iraq proves this. Therefore, military measures or invasions cannot make long term amends in the culture of a nation.

What is needed from the free world is to politically support the oppositionist movements of Iranian people against theocracy. Physical removal of the oppositionists especially intellectuals and authors by the Mullahs' government should be abolished by any means of political pressure.

And this also goes to the issues of political prisoners and freedom of expression. This way, steps to democracy will be taken by this nation deliberately, completely, and maturely. And, this way, instead of a terrorist State, we'll have a "real" secular Iran that joins the free world with a great potential for construction.

But, of course, we have a strenuous way ahead of us before reaching this point.

FP: Well sir, democracy came to Japan and Germany by military defeat. At this very moment there is an incredible process of democratization occuring in Iraq --thanks to America. A brutal and sadistic dictator is gone and there have already been three historic elections there in 2005 -- thanks to the American liberation.

Sadeghi: One million Iranian lives were lost in 8 years of demolishing war with Saddam. Of course I am happy he is gone. However, I am also deeply anxiousabout the consequences of another war for both Iranian people and the West. In this special phase of time, interests of Iranians and the West especiallyAmericans clearly meet, and, to preserve these interests, any decision should be made wisely, with calculating how to pay the least price to stop the ideological terror of the Mullahs. My nation is a victim of terrorism as well as the American nation.

FP: To be sure, if the U.S. will act, it will do only because it has the responsibility to stop a death cult from pereptrating mass death and suicide. And I don't know of any powers in the world that can beat the U.S. and Israel in its record of agonizing about how to cause the least amount of casualties in war on both sides.

In any case, Mr. Sadeghi, our hearts are with the Iranian people, and we hope that they will be able to free themselves from the tyrants that rule over them now, and that the West can help in the best and most effective way.

Most Arabs are so racist, most Muslims are so intolerant, they just can't bring themselves to be grateful to the US for rescuing Iraqi Arab men, women & children from the butcher & torturer of Baghdad: Saddam Hussein.

There was not one shred of gratitude from any known Muslim leader or group for US & Europe's rescuing of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990's. anti west is still going strong instead

There was not one declaration of thank you from any known Muslim leader or organization for US saving of Somali Muslims in the 1990's. but on the contrary, their hatred only grew.

Did one [mainstream] single Muslim cleric come up and say that the Koranic term [reminder, only Islamists kill, torture in the name of religion & book] 'apes & pigs', the Islamists call the non Muslims, are not to be followed?

While [not only most Jews or even most Israelis, but even] most Zionist Jews sympathize with Arab 'Palestinian' fallen unintentionally in the war on terror, but almost all Arabs & Muslims demonize Israeli victims of intentional Arab-Muslims violent crimes against humanity.

While Arabs live in Israel not only just better & more free [women voting, real free speech, etc.] than in all of their own regimes, but treated often as first class citizens ahead of Israeli Jews (courts, land issues, etc.), Jews, however, are either not allowed to live in certain Arab countries [apartheid, ethnic cleansing, etc. Syria even denies any entry for a Jew,] or persecuted in most Arab countries.

Which Arab Muslim nation is exempt of the epidemic of criminal 'honor killing'?

If Pro terror Muslim organizations like CAIR [ http://anti-cair-net.org ] is defined as "moderate", what would one call their mainstream?

Roughly 90% of Arabs polled, have a negative view on all Jews [not just being 'anti-Zionism', whatever that means], even in such [so called 'moderate'] countries like: Jordan.

"White" Hitler's 'MeinKampf' is translated into Arabic, available on the "brown" Arab market, what for?

What's the interest in "brown" Arab nations' inviting "white" KKK members to speak?

Do you know of any Muslim group that has joined the efforts of Christian/Jewish action to prevent the racist genocide by Arab Muslims in Sudan upon native black Muslims?

Has any Arab media issued an apology for inciting the bloody "intifada" [2000] via lying images, such as of Muhammad Al dura, which as we all know by now, was killed by Arabs themselves [who knows how many more]? or has anyone of them run the true version of stories?

Which Arab, Muslim nation is exempt from the crime of libel against Israel's struggle for survival with outrageous drama "accusations" & horrific twisted around definitions in the UN [reaching it's peak with their racist resolution in Durban - 2000, hypocritically calling it "against racism"]?

How many Arabs, Muslims, have declared openly that the 'Palestinian' Arab Muslim cult of using it's kids as human bombs and as human shields in their war against Israeli civilians, is totally immoral?

Not one Muslim group has come up against and declared that a collective boycott of an entire nation such as Denmark (2006, because they were upset with a few cartoonists that happened to be Danes) is racism.

While most Arab, most Muslims couldn't care less what happens with the [so called] "Palestinian" Arab Muslims, they do use them as pawns in their fascist war [physical, propaganda, economic & in the UN] against the non Arab, non Muslim "island" in their neighborhood, i.e. Israel.

While Arab, Muslims leaders chased out, in 1948, most of the [so called] "Palestinian" refugees, with bragging "promises" of "victory" & ethnic cleansing the Jews out of Israel, they put them in camps, never let Israel to improve their conditions, so to use them as pawns in their fascist war against the non Arab, non Muslim "island" in their neighborhood, i.e. Israel.

Most Arab Muslim media draws Israel so vile, as in the WWII type of Nazi cartoon drive [the other unfunny ironic part is, they pick the non-Zionist Jew image, hypocrisy, again, fascism, again].

Most Muslims wishwash the facsistic Muslims' torture and cold blooded murder of innocent people that just happened to be Jewish, like: Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, Ilan Halimi.

Did you hear one mainstream Arab Muslim leader or groups denuncing the Islamic Hitler of Iran's calls for annihilation of an entire nation, calling for a new Holocaust while denying the previous one and his calls for death to: US & the UK? [PS, he just made a tour (May-2006) among "moderate" Muslim nations that only cheered him on.
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Exactly How many Muslims or Muslim organizations [that are so worry about their image or of their 'prophet's] have protested against the masses of Muslims on the 'Cartoon -Jihad' rampage (2006), calling Europe a cancer and threatening a "9/11" on Europe?

Not one of the few courageous Muslims that speak out for real overall reform, for disliking westerners, for sympathy for Israel the victim, for about [all] Muslims regimes' crimes on their own people, have been shielded from any major Muslim organization (including such as CAIR - http://anti-cair-net.org), from the menace of death threats Fatwas by Muslim clerics.

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